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NEW DELHI: Country's largest carmaker Maruti Suzuki plans to invest around Rs 4,000 crore in the next fiscal on various activities such as the introduction of new models, marketing and R&D. The company's board, which met today, approved the investment for the next fiscal besides coming out with new proposals for the proposed manufacturing facility in Gujarat. "Board approved capex for 2014-15 will be around Rs 4,000 crore. The investments would be mainly for new models, marketing infrastructure and R&D," a company spokesperson said.

NEW DELHI: IT services firm Tech Mahindra today said it has set up a global development centre in partnership with Alstom Transport, a manufacturer of rail technology. Under a three-year partnership, the two companies will focus on the growing need for efficient vertical integration capabilities from engineering to manufacturing on rolling stock interior field. The development centre will cover primarily engineering activities focused on concept to prototype build. "This partnership shall further increase our flexibility and competitiveness.

NEW DELHI: Tata Consultancy Services Ltd (TCS) rallied as much as 1.8 per cent in trade on Wednesday and was also the top most gainer on the Sensex, after the IT major said it has partnered with Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS). At 09:50 a.m.; TCS was trading 1.4 per cent higher at Rs 2274.30. It hit a low of Rs 2253.05 and a high of Rs 2284.30 in trade today. Indian outsourcing giant partnered with Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) for the development of online and on-premise versions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management)

NEW DELHI: IT major Tata Consultancy Services today said it has partnered with Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) for the development of online and on-premise versions of Microsoft Dynamics CRM (customer relationship management). The announcement was made today at the annual Microsoft Dynamics Convergence Conference in Georgia, Atlanta (the US), TCS said in a statement. As part of this partnership, India's largest software services exporter has established a development centre to support the upcoming releases and updates to the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Roadmap, namely Mira and Leo, it added.

BANGALORE: Indian IT's prospects brighten in the largest country in North America and home to companies such as Bombardier, BlackBerry , and RBC, as the outsourcers seek to find a balance between local job creation and the offshore delivery model. Some Indian IT firms have been in the country for over a decade, but very little of the sector's $118 billion in annual revenues come from Canada today. As Canadian corporations also increasingly look to save more by cutting costs of their IT operations, Indian IT providers see opportunity.

NEW DELHI: New York-based IT firm Synechron plans to hire about 400 people this year at its development centre in Pune. Of Syncheron's global headcount of over 5,000 people, close to 4,000 work at its centre in Pune. "Over the last 12 years, we have emerged as a high-growth fast-paced company, working towards transforming the conventional outsourcing business model. This new facility will lend further cadence to our growth objectives," Synechron CEO Faisal Husain told PTI. The injection of local expertise and upgraded infrastructure will accelerate focus on delivering high-end domain intensive technology solutions to Synechron customers, he added.

KOLKATA: West Bengal government on Friday signed an MoU with FiCCI and IL&FS to develop a centre of excellence for skill development in Burdwan district. The state chief minister Mamata Banerjee was present at the signing ceremony. Skill development is one of the major challenges that our nation is confronting. The visible mismatch between India's population and its unemployment figures verifies that a large chunk of potential workforce needs to be trained and engaged for the purpose of accomplishing government's continuous economic inclusion drive.

BANGALORE: British drug maker AstraZeneca's decision to close its research and development centre in Bangalore is causing angst amongst biotechnology entrepreneurs in the country who have gained from the ideas and learning that it provided. Nearly half a dozen startups trace their roots to the 25-year-old centre that led critical research in areas such as tuberculosis and malaria. "We are having sleepless nights," said Shrikumar Suryanarayan, director general at the Association of Biotechnology-Led Enterprises (Able)

CHENNAI: GE Healthcare, the USD 18 billion healthcare business of General Electric , and IIT Madras today signed a three-year research and development agreement to offer a range of affordable healthcare solutions. "The collaboration between HTIC (Healthcare Technology Innovation Centre) and GE Healthcare will bring together startup dynamism and corporate scalability to healthcare iinnovations while putting unserved customer at the centre of healthcare innovation," GE Healthcare, President and CEO, Terri Bresenham said in a statement.

PUNE: Energy and environment solutions provider Thermax and Zensar Technologies will be jointly setting up a vocational skill development centre in Pune to enable young and underprivileged citizens acquire skills and find jobs. The Centre will be set up in partnership with the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and SGBS Unnati Foundation , an NGO which has done similar work in Bangalore and Delhi. The aim is to annually upgrade the skills of 200 candidates in the age group of 18 to 35 years, with assured employment at the end of a 70 day training programme.